The Quad Report: Sci-fi alcohol, weightlifting & 3 lunar tweets

Welcome back to the Quad Report, the weekly roundup of articles you may have missed while you were sweating through your shirt on a sweltering subway platform screaming, “Dante was right, this is the ninth circle of Hell!”

1. What to say when a sci-fi movie needs a new high-tech device.

Courtesy of Vaportini

“Try the Vaportini.” In what can only be described as something out of an Isaac Asimov novel, the Vaportini is an invention that allows you to sip alcoholic beverages and have them immediately enter your bloodstream after going through some process involving some fire and a “glass globe.”

So, what’s the conundrum? The device could either be the solution to endless pregaming or it’ll make college binge-drinking an even bigger problem on campuses nationwide.

2. Whoa, why is that nerdy kid lifting an 50-pound dumbbell?

Because science. A new study coming from Michigan State University finds that students who have gym memberships also have GPAs that are 0.13 points higher than the couch potatoes who don’t work up a sweat. Bottom line? Drop the potato chips and pick up a barbell.

3. In the latest edition of “You’re feeling really old right about now…”

Petra Zarah Jarrar (Photo by Rocco Morabito)

16-year-old Petra Zarah Jarrar talked about her experiences being a college student despite not being able to hold a driver’s license in many states or sign legal documentation on her own. Next we’re going to have some 10-year-old boy wonder going to college and watching Phineas and Ferb re-runs in between classes.

4. Shocker of the week: Young people don’t use Snapchat to sext.

Can you give us a little credit, old people? Sharing drunk pictures of friends acting foolishly is way more fun than a photo of someone’s genitalia.

The 3 Best Tweet of the Week: Lunar landing edition

Last Sunday marked the 45th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the moon and Neil Armstrong taking that first step for mankind while Buzz Aldrin stood back and said, “Always the bridesmaid, never the bride.” In honor of their historic journey, feast your eyes on all of the terrible things Armstrong didn’t say on the moon but totally should have.

The Quad Report is compiled each week by Lily Herman, a student at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, studying government and sociology. She is the co-founder of a college admissions and high school/college lifestyles organization called The Prospect, and her writing has also been featured on The Daily Muse, Forbes, Her Campus and The Huffington Post. You can find her on Twitter right here.

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